Monday, December 14, 2015
Niska's story
I wanted to discuss a specific passage about one of Niska's stories I found particular odd. Niska is hiding in the bushes by the play area at the residential school. When her nephew chases a ball close by she calls him to come talk to her. She asks him to come live with her so she can teach him the old ways. I'm appalled at the fact that a five or six year old child would just say yes to go away to a complete stranger. Even at that age when a person asks for you to come away you should be hesitant.(218) Not even scared of the person their-self, but to move away from everything you've ever know and jump into something different. For a child, that's extremely odd that they would not feel scared to do something such as this. This just solidifies the terrible stories that come from residential schools. This child would choose to live with a complete stranger in the forest rather than his school. Thinking anything would be better than being here. I would have to ask a child at that age if they would be up for it but they would never understand what an actual residential school was like and still could not make an informed decision. This specific story of Niska's directly correlates to the main idea of residential schools.
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I agree that this was extremely odd. For us we were taught not to talk to strangers let alone go somewhere with them. Although we don't live in the awful situations the children in residential schools did. For this reason we couldn't possibly understand why a child would go somewhere with a complete stranger. It just makes us think, what kind of sick places were these.
ReplyDeleteI agree I felt this was very strange and not right to do. When we were small our parents all said to never talk to strangers and to be smart when your be yourself. It almost seems that they were taught this when they were young to be on their own and do whatever they felt was right. They clearly were taught the proper ways of doing things. I personally would not wanna leave all my friends behind to leave into the middle of no where with a complete stranger that I don't know, nevermind live with them and spend everyday with each other, I would feel uncomfortable and scared as a child. What were these kids taught back then?! Very scary...
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